LYNN SCHUETTE is a visual artist whose practice includes painting, drawing, and mixed media. Schuette often explores the body and nature, ranging from classical figurative and landscape painting to anatomical/medical imagery often laced with contemporary social issues. Since 1987, she has created fourteen series of works including Bloodstorm, an exploration of boxing, 1990-92; Mi oeste perdido (My Lost West), elemental landscapes, times of day and weather conditions, using white, black and yellow ochre only, 2004-2009; and The Beauty Project which included sixty-four paintings generated from answers to a question about beauty, 2010.

Schuette’s work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions including California Connections: Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido (2017) and Homing In, an Exhibition of 50 San Diego Artists at Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla (2009). She was one of four featured artists in the Nature Improved exhibitions at the Oceanside Museum and the San Diego History Center, was included in the inaugural exhibition of the new San Diego Central Library Gallery, and was featured on ArtPulse TV (all 2013-14).Her work is also included in public, corporate, and private collections including the City of San Diego Art Collection, the San Diego History Center, and Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles.

In addition to her art practice Schuette is an arts consultant and the founder and former executive director of Sushi Performance & Visual Art (1980-1995). She is recognized for introducing nationally-acclaimed performance and dance artists to the San Diego community including Karen Finley, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Whoopi Goldberg, Rachel Rosenthal, Joe Goode Performance Group, and the Black Choreographers Moving Project.

2004 In a World Where Butchers Sing Like Angels, Taylor Library, San Diego, CA

2003 The Garden Show, Art Cellar Exchange, San Diego, CA

2002 The Garden Show, Bard Hall Gallery, San Diego, CA

1998 My Nature, Margeaux Kurtie Modern Art, Madrid, NM

1997 My Nature, David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, CA

1996 Incarnadine, David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, CA

1994 Meridian , David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, CA

1992 Bloodstorm, Lyceum Theater, San Diego, CA

1991 Bloodstorm, David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, CA

1988 Visceral Devotion, MAG Galleries, Santa Monica, CA

1987 Visceral Devotion, Educational Cultural Complex, San Diego, CA

1987 Visceral Devotion, Hyde Gallery, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA

Since 2001 the artist has also presented annual solo exhibitions in her studio.

SELECTED CORPORATE/PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego/ MCASD, La Jolla, CA

City of San Diego Art Collection, San Diego, CA

San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA

Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA

Palomar College, San Marcos, CA

Volt Information Sciences, Tustin, CA

Great Western Savings Bank, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED PUBLIC/CORPORATE COMMISSIONS

2005 Lead Artist /Finalist Team, Commemorative Artwork for Martin Luther King Jr/SR 94, sponsored by Caltrans and the San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture

2003 City of San Diego & San Diego Public Library, Public Commission The Color of This Life is Water, awardedin 1999, completed in 2003. Eight panels, each 110” x 107”, installed at the San Diego Convention Center from 2003 to 2013. Coordinated by Christina Bodenhamer, Project Architect, Conwell Shonkwiler & Associates; Anna Tatar, San Diego Library Director; and Linda Forsha, City Public Art Administrator.